Anglican attitudes to sanctity

 

Moment of truth in the Danneels investigation

Het Nieuwsblad - Onderzoek naar onderzoek Danneels in stroomversnelling

The Board of Indictment (AI) on August 6 will hear the parties involved in the Danneels case.

The investigation into sexual abuse within the Church will be fought over in court in the next few weeks the court . The Prosecutor-General of Brussels decided a few weeks ago to review the actions of the investigators and to place the investigating judge under the microscope has "got the time" of the Board of Indictment .

This means that the AI will decide on the validity of the investigation. The first session is scheduled for Friday, August 6. The KI can ask all parties involvedin the criminal investigation their standpoint. These are the Prosecutor General in Brussels, the investigating judge and the lawyers of Cardinal Danneels. But whether that happens is uncertain.

The study by the Kl comes in response to the notorious searches on June 24 undertaken by investigating judge Wim De Troy of Cardinal Danneels home, the episcopal palace in Mechelen and St. Rombouts Cathedral.

Operation Chalice

Investigators of the Brussels Federal Judicial Police then went in search of clues and evidence that the facts of child abuse by the church were covered up by the Church. During the searches not only a lot of documents but also all the computers from the episcopal palace and the personal computer of Cardinal Danneels were seized.

The action called "Operation Chalice" generated a lot of controversy. The lawyer for the archdiocese and Cardinal Danneels, Fernand Keuleneer, provided the Brussels public prosecutor-general with a dozen objections about the searches. The Prosecutor General then decided to test the validity of the investigation. That the prosecutor-general has got the time of the AI , indicates that a decision has been made but that the decision is yet unclear.

The Man Behind the Pope

None other than the late and very great Michael Davies.

Upon learning of his death, Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, wrote:

I have been profoundly touched by the news of the death of Michael Davies. I had the good fortune to meet him several times and I found him as a man of deep faith and ready to embrace suffering. Ever since the Council he put all his energy into the service of the Faith and left us important publications especially about the Sacred Liturgy. Even though he suffered from the Church in many ways in his time, he always truly remained a man of the Church. He knew that the Lord founded His Church on the rock of St Peter and that the Faith can find its fullness and maturity only in union with the successor of St Peter. Therefore we can be confident that the Lord opened wide for him the gates of heaven. We commend his soul to the Lord’s mercy.

The Last Religious in a Beguinage

Not actually a Beguine, but a Franciscan who had been affiliated to the last community. They all passed away leaving her in Kortrijk where I took this photo a few years ago and where she is now represented by a statue.

Cardinal Danneels has got his computer back

But just to be on the safe side, the authorities have kept a copy of the hard drive.

Church becomes living room

Video from Germany about church conversion

When you go on pilgrimage to Chartres, leave the dogs outside

Bishop of Linz welcomes Mexican football team

Some detail here of the Mexican Bishop

Decline and fall of Christian Democracy in Germany

Jeder Fünfte würde neue konservative Partei wählen

One in five would vote for a new conservative party
POLLSTER SPEAKS OF "YEARNING" FOR NEW PARTY

According to a recent survey by the polling institute Emnid for "Focus" every fifth German can imagine voting for a "bourgeois-conservative party to the right of the CDU". 74 percent of the respondents would not choose such a newly established party, six per cent abstained.

20 percent for such a conservative rival party - this is an alarming number, especially for the Union, as Emnid CEO Klaus-Peter  Schöppner writes in an analysis for Bild am Sonntag . The pollsters feel a "desire for a new party." Because: "CDU / CSU have only ten months after the election almost 40 percent, the FDP 75 percent of their voters  lost. Not even half of these have "gone over" to the enemies camp.

Particularly worrying according to Schöppner: "Paradoxically, the most loyal voters of the Union are presently flocking in droves to the non-voting: Christian orientated values based conservatives wish to associate the economy with values but face more and more, 'the social democratising of their party". Already the idea to vote Green or SPD is a horror for them. Instead, they are politically homeless. "

According to findings Schöppner they choose either the Union or not at all ". Or soon a new party? The forecast of the pollster, "If they could embody in politicians such as Roland Koch again, business expertise, Friedrich Merz openess to argument, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg modernity and Joachim Gauck values , it could immediately win 20 percent of voters . "The Union, however, was in danger of being marginalized by a new party .

A new party would be governed according to Schöppner's analysis by the focus on a "fair contract" (play on words in the original German) "between citizens and politics"  instead of the current "financial manipulation and rip-off". In times of permanent recession and unjust distribution of life opportunities, there platform  would have to be called "market and morality are". Schöppner already has a new name: "Unity and justice and freedom".

Decline and fall of Christian Democracy in Germany

Feast of St Christopher and my name day

Here followeth of Saint Christopher and first of his name.
from the Golden Legend

Christopher tofore his baptism was named Reprobus, but afterwards he was named Christopher, which is as much to say as bearing Christ, of that that he bare Christ in four manners. He bare him on his shoulders by conveying and leading, in his body by making it lean, in mind by devotion, and in his mouth by confession and predication.

Of Saint Christopher.

Christopher was of the lineage of the Canaanites, and he was of a right great stature, and had a terrible and fearful cheer and countenance. And he was twelve cubits of length, and as it is read in some histories that, when he served and dwelled with the king of Canaan, it came in his mind that he would seek the greatest prince that was in the world, and him would he serve and obey. And so far he went that he came to a right great king, of whom the renomee generally was that he was the greatest of the world. And when the king saw him, he received him into his service, and made him to dwell in his court. Upon a time a minstrel sang tofore him a song in which he named oft the devil, and the king, which was a christian man, when he heard him name the devil, made anon the sign of the cross in his visage. And when Christopher saw that, he had great marvel what sign it was, and wherefore the king made it, and he demanded of him. And because the king would not say, he said: If thou tell me not, I shall no longer dwell with thee, and then the king told to him, saying: Alway when I hear the devil named, I fear that he should have power over me, and I garnish me with this sign that he grieve not ne annoy me. Then Christopher said to him: Doubtest thou the devil that he hurt thee not? Then is the devil more mighty and greater than thou art. I am then deceived of my hope and purpose, for I had supposed I had found the most mighty and the most greatest Lord of the world, but I commend thee to God, for I will go seek him for to be my Lord, and I his servant. And then departed from this king, and hasted him for to seek the devil. And as he went by a great desert, he saw a great company of knights, of which a knight cruel and horrible came to him and demanded whither he went, and Christopher answered to him and said: I go seek the devil for to be my master. And he said: I am he that thou seekest. And then Christopher was glad, and bound him to be his servant perpetual, and took him for his master and Lord. And as they went together by a common way, they found there a cross, erect and standing. And anon as the devil saw the cross he was afeard and fled, and left the right way, and brought Christopher about by a sharp desert. And after, when they were past the cross, he brought him to the highway that they had left. And when Christopher saw that, he marvelled, and demanded whereof he doubted, and had left the high and fair way, and had gone so far about by so aspre a desert. And the devil would not tell him in no wise. Then Christopher said to him: If thou wilt not tell me, I shall anon depart from thee, and shall serve thee no more. Wherefor the devil was constrained to tell him, and said: There was a man called Christ which was hanged on the cross, and when I see his sign I am sore afraid, and flee from it wheresoever I see it. To whom Christopher said: Then he is greater, and more mightier than thou, when thou art afraid of his sign, and I see well that I have laboured in vain, when I have not founden the greatest Lord of the world. And I will serve thee no longer, go thy way then, for I will go seek Christ. And when he had long sought and demanded where he should find Christ, at last he came into a great desert, to an hermit that dwelt there, and this hermit preached to him of Jesu Christ and informed him in the faith diligently, and said to him: This king whom thou desirest to serve, requireth the service that thou must oft fast. And Christopher said to him: Require of me some other thing, and I shall do it, for that which thou requirest I may not do. And the hermit said: Thou must then wake and make many prayers. And Christopher said to him: I wot not what it is; I may do no such thing. And then the hermit said to him: Knowest thou such a river, in which many be perished and lost? To whom Christopher said: I know it well. Then said the hermit, Because thou art noble and high of stature and strong in thy members, thou shalt be resident by that river, and thou shalt bear over all them that shall pass there, which shall be a thing right convenable to our Lord Jesu Christ whom thou desirest to serve, and I hope he shall show himself to thee. Then said Christopher: Certes, this service may I well do, and I promise to him for to do it. Then went Christopher to this river, and made there his habitacle for him, and bare a great pole in his hand instead of a staff, by which he sustained him in the water, and bare over all manner of people without ceasing. And there he abode, thus doing, many days. And in a time, as he slept in his lodge, he heard the voice of a child which called him and said: Christopher, come out and bear me over. Then he awoke and went out, but he found no man. And when he was again in his house, he heard the same voice and he ran out and found nobody. The third time he was called and came thither, and found a child beside the rivage of the river, which prayed him goodly to bear him over the water. And then Christopher lift up the child on his shoulders, and took his staff, and entered into the river for to pass. And the water of the river arose and swelled more and more: and the child was heavy as lead, and alway as he went farther the water increased and grew more, and the child more and more waxed heavy, insomuch that Christopher had great anguish and was afeard to be drowned. And when he was escaped with great pain, and passed the water, and set the child aground, he said to the child: Child, thou hast put me in great peril; thou weighest almost as I had all the world upon me, I might bear no greater burden. And the child answered: Christopher, marvel thee nothing, for thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, but thou hast borne him that created and made all the world, upon thy shoulders. I am Jesu Christ the king, to whom thou servest in this work. And because that thou know that I say to be the truth, set thy staff in the earth by thy house, and thou shalt see to-morn that it shall bear flowers and fruit, and anon he vanished from his eyes. And then Christopher set his staff in the earth, and when he arose on the morn, he found his staff like a palmier bearing flowers, leaves and dates.

And then Christopher went into the city of Lycia, and understood not their language. Then he prayed our Lord that he might understand them, and so he did. And as he was in this prayer, the judges supposed that he had been a fool, and left him there. And then when Christopher understood the language, he covered his visage and went to the place where they martyred christian men, and comforted them in our Lord. And then the judges smote him in the face, and Christopher said to them: If I were not christian I should avenge mine injury. And then Christopher pitched his rod in the earth, and prayed to our Lord that for to convert the people it might bear flowers and fruit, and anon it did so. And then he converted eight thousand men. And then the king sent two knights for to fetch him to the king, and they found him praying, and durst not tell to him so. And anon after, the king sent as many more, and they anon set them down for to pray with him. And when Christopher arose, he said to them: What seek ye? And when they saw him in the visage they said to him: The king hath sent us, that we should lead thee bound unto him. And Christopher said to them: If I would, ye should not lead me to him, bound ne unbound. And they said to him: If thou wilt go thy way, go quit, where thou wilt. And we shall say to the king that we have not found thee. It shall not be so, said he, but I shall go with you. And then he converted them in the fatth, and commanded them that they should bind his hands behind his back, and lead him so bound to the king. And when the king saw him he was afeard and fell down off the seat, and his servants lifted him up and releved him again. And then the king inquired his name and his country; and Christopher said to him: Tofore or I was baptized I was named Reprobus, and after, I am Christopher; tofore baptism, a Canaanite, now, a christian man. To whom the king said: Thou hast a foolish name, that is to wit of Christ crucified, which could not help himself, ne may not profit to thee. How therefore, thou cursed Canaanite, why wilt thou not do sacrifice to our gods? To whom Christopher said: Thou art rightfully called Dagnus, for thou art the death of the world, and fellow of the devil, and thy gods be made with the hands of men. And the king said to him: Thou wert nourished among wild beasts, and therefore thou mayst not say but wild language, and words unknown to men. And if thou wilt now do sacrifice to the gods I shall give to thee great gifts and great honours, and if not, I shall destroy thee and consume thee by great pains and torments. But, for all this, he would in no wise do sacrifice, wherefore he was sent in to prison, and the king did do behead the other knights that he had sent for him, whom he had converted. And after this he sent in to the prison to Saint Christopher two fair women, of whom that one was named Nicæa and that other Aquilina, and promised to them many great gifts if they could draw Christopher to sin with them. And when Christopher saw that, he set him down in prayer, and when he was constrained by them that embraced him to move, he arose and said: What seek ye? For what cause be ye come hither? And they, which were afraid of his cheer and clearness of his visage, said: Holy saint of God, have pity of us so that we may believe in that God that thou preachest. And when the king heard that, he commanded that they should be let out and brought tofore him. To whom he said: Ye be deceived, but I swear to you by my gods that, if ye do no sacrifice to my gods, ye shall anon perish by evil death. And they said to him: If thou wilt that we shall do sacrifice, command that the places may be made clean, and that all the people may assemble at the temple. And when this was done they entered in to the temple, and took their girdles, and put them about the necks of their gods, and drew them to the earth, and brake them all in pieces, and said to them that were there: Go and call physicians and leeches for to heal your gods. And then, by the commandment of the king, Aquilina was hanged, and a right great and heavy stone was hanged at her feet, so that her members were much despitously broken. And when she was dead, and passed to our Lord, her sister Nicæa was cast into a great fire, but she issued out without harm all whole, and then he made to smite off her head, and so suffered death.

After this Christopher was brought tofore the king, and the king commanded that he should be beaten with rods of iron, and that there should be set upon his head a cross of iron red hot and burning, and then after, he did do make a siege or a stool of iron, and made Christopher to be bounden thereon, and after, to set fire under it, and cast therein pitch. But the siege or settle melted like wax, and Christopher issued out without any harm or hurt. And when the king saw that, he commanded that he should be bound to a strong stake, and that he should be through-shotten with arrows with forty knights archers. But none of the knights might attain him, for the arrows hung in the air about, nigh him, without touching. Then the king weened that he had been throughshotten with the arrows of the knights, and addressed him for to go to him. And one of the arrows returned suddenly from the air and smote him in the eye, and blinded him. To whom Christopher said: Tyrant, I shall die to-morn, make a little clay, with my blood tempered, and anoint therewith thine eye, and thou shalt receive health. Then by the commandment of the king he was led for to be beheaded, and then, there made he his orison, and his head was smitten off, and so suffered martyrdom. And the king then took a little of his blood and laid it on his eye, and said: In the name of God and of Saint Christopher! and was anon healed. Then the king believed in God, and gave commandment that if any person blamed God or Saint Christopher, he should anon be slain with the sword.

Ambrose saith in his preface thus, of this holy martyr: Lord, thou hast given to Christopher so great plenty of virtues, and such grace of doctrine, that he called from the error of paynims forty-eight thousand men, to the honour of christian faith, by his shining miracles. And Nicæa and Aquilina, which long had been common at the bordel, under the stench of lechery, he called and made them serve in the habit of chastity, and enseigned them to a like crown of martyrdom. And with this, he being strained and bounden in a seat of iron, and great fire put under, doubted nothing the heat. And all a whole day during, stood bounden to a stake, yet might not be through-pierced with arrows of all the knights. And with that, one of the arrows smote out the eye of the tyrant, to whom the blood of the holy martyr re-established his sight, and enlumined him in taking away the blindness of his body, and gat of the christian mind and pardon, and he also gat of thee by prayer power to put away sickness and sores from them that remember his passion and figure. 

Then let us pray to Saint Christopher that he pray for us, etc.

Dog and Horse Mass

German Bishops Conference head did not follow his own anti-abuse guidelines?

Deutschland: Birnau – Terra Incognita fuer Zollitsch? - badische-zeitung.de

Birnau - Terra Incognita for Zollitsch?
Has Robert Zollitsch not followed in the case Birnau the anti-abuse guidelines of the Episcopal Conference? His office would rather talk about other things.


"Wherever that is there is a suspicion, there must be a seamless and absolutely transparent investigation," Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch stated in February at the General Assembly of the German Bishops' Conference said. He is its chairman. "We German bishops insist that the earlier and some long past,like naturally all recent cases of sexual abuse of minors must be investigated.

The pressure has since been sometimes more, sometimes less clearly felt. The Freiburg Press, for example, is currently rather silent. It was not always so - meaning that there was hardly a ecclesiastical affairs editor who does not know what a Territorial Abbey is: The newly named Office of Communications has augmented the declaration with weekly statements. But: Why?

In the spring the BZ and other media reported on a case of sexual abuse that occurred in the late 60s at the Cistercian monastery of Birnau, whose Fathers have been responsible for pastoral care in Birnau since 1946. In the BZ, it twas made known that the victim, Peter P. accused Father Gregory M..

2006 P. reported the case to the archdiocese in the context of his therapy. Although the accused had admitted the fact in writing and P. found out that the Order knew of further acts of abuse, M.was able to work in March 2010 in Schübelbach (Diocese Chur) as the parish administrator, which obviously included contact with children obviously. His resignation only occured when P. had threatened the priest, with a demonstration outside the church.
What exactly is a Territorial?

How could this happen? The archdiocese clarifies the case with the history of the Territorial Abbey - an exotic story which is likely to confuse even experts. Worldwide, only a dozen of such abbeys exist and the statement begins: "The Cistercian Abbey of Mehrerau is one of these Territorial Abbeys', which comes under the responsibility of the Abbot. The Pilgrimage and Monastery Church of Birnau was made a priory in 1919 of the Abbey of Mehrerau. Territorial Abbey (...) means a geographically circumscribed area whose care is entrusted to an abbot. This is his sole responsibility – which he excercises as a diocesan bishop. Such a Regional Abbey does not belong to any diocese and is completely independent of the diocesan bishop. "

The story goes further, however, but at this point, virtually all media in Germany and a number of canon lawyers had the impression Zollitsch was not responsible for the events in Birnau. The Badische Zeitung, too. Already in March, the Ordinariat assured that it had informed the abbot both about the 2006 and the disclosure of new allegations in 2010 and required consequences. Since the events in 2006 could not be pursued under statute of limitations, they respected the wish of the victim at that time, not to inform the public prosecutor (P. saids differently).

In June, the Ordinariat stated: "Several canon law experts and the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau, Anselm van der Linde, have already made it clear that Zollitsch had nothing to do with the personnel decisions and processes in the monastery Birnau." Abbot Anselm has been in office since 2009.
Canon lawyer Beer corrects himself

Only slowly was doubt woken on the relevance of the information. There such a thing as a "territorially circumscribed area" of the Territorial Abbey, but apparently only in Austria. And if Archbishop Zollitsch in Birnau was not responsible, why did he then set up a new pastoral care unit there in 2007, according to the Official Journal and appointed the Cistercian Father Bruno Metzler to lead it ? The jurist Georg Beer, a professor at the University of Freiburg, has been quoted in the spring by the Catholic news agency KNA and the diocese on the case. Following the research by the BZ he corrected himself:

"The Sanctuary of St. Mary is in the territory of the Archdiocese of Freiburg," even if that is the property of the Order. On the pastoral care unit, this means: "The parish care belongs to the archdiocese of Freiburg (...), Its area is part of the territory of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. (...) The pastoral care of the parish curacy has been since the establishment in 1946 given to the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Wettingen Mehrerau. This is the responsibility according to canon 520 of the relevant archbishop, in this case the Archbishop of Freiburg. (...). Responsible chief pastor of the faithful is the Archbishop of Freiburg. "

The BZ even has the opinion of the renowned U.S. jurist and abuse expert Thomas P. Doyle. He was asked by Skydaddy's Blog . In fact, he also followed the initial reasoning of the diocese, but then corrected his opinion also.
The formulations of the press office were strangely empty

Were those responsible in the Ordinariat simply mistaken? One would like to believe it. On the other hand Zollitsch is considered a management expert and obviously takes his other rights in Birnau quite seriously. Above all, one would expect after an error a statement which really corrects the matter, for example, correcting: "The pastoral care unit of Birnau does not belong to the Archdiocese and Archbishop Zollitsch has no responsibility for the care of its believers."

These statements however, were never withdrawn. Instead, the wording of the Press Office turns out as curiously empty - a closer look at the statements and one would expect something wrong to be corrrected yet, so to speak, nothing: The pilgrimage church and monastery of Birnau really belongs as a priory to the Abbey Mehrerau. In all important respects it belongs here to the archdiocese, including their pastoral care unit. Robert Zollitsch may also have had nothing to to with personnel decisions and processes in the monastery have had nothing. For the care of the parishioners by priests, he was very much responsible. The Office of Communications communicates not false but irrelevant statements. Why the effort?


There does not seem to have been a subsequent inspection

Clearer sentences can be found in the guidelines of the Episcopal Conference: "The responsibility for the examination of cases of sexual abuse of minors by religious, operating under the provisions of episcopal instructions is, - without prejudice to the responsibility of superiors - in the diocese." This is true since 2002. Is it sufficient in 2006 to give the information to the Abbot? No, replied George Beer. "A mere passing on of the information about a potential offender (and his victims) to the competent superiors, especially if this occurs without subsequent monitoring not correspond to the demands of the guidelines."

There appears not to have been a subsequent inspection- and little other research. Thus, the victim had even to find out that it was not the only case- and that the Order knew a long time ago about the inclination of his tormentor: Between 1966 and 1968, there were apparently at least four adolescents abused in Birnau. In 1968 he lived in Mehrerau, where there were also victims, since he was sent as a punishment to Alsace. From 1971 to 1987 he worked conditionally in the diocese of Basel, where the abuses in Birnau and Mehrerau were documented on recruitment. Freiburg allegedly knew nothing.

Also in the diocese of Basel, M. relapsed. Was the offender in 2006 in Freiburg simply believed when he claimed a single act? And if Mehrerau really knew about this, differently to Basel, did they concealed the matter for decades- would it not have been natural to inquire, in Switzerland, about their experience? The Ordinariat obviously did not, but entrusted the Cistercians in 2007 again with the pastoral care in Birnau.

It would not have even been known that the priest in the early 90's again lived at the monastery of Birnau lived, from where he probably took up pastoral duties again. The personnel officer in the archdiocese at that time was Robert Zollitsch. Even in an email dated 23March 2010 wrote the person responsible for abuse questions, Canon Eugene Maier to the victim, "Father Gregory M. left the abbey of Birnau in 1968 and since then have not been in the Archdiocese of Freiburg and is no longer in Germany." Fairly extensive information. Only when P. could prove the contrary Father Maier also found G. was listed several years after 1989 in documentation. He apologized.
The victim found the statements false and misleading

At least now those in charge would probably have to be clear that they had taken for fools for years by the Abbey. No wonder: When the Ordinariat reported to Mehrerau in 2006, there still the same abbot as in 1968 The Order supervises Zollitsch’s pastures in Birnau to this day.

As P. wanted to ensure canonically that his tormentor was removed from work, they told him he should contact the person responsible at the current residence of the accused. It was not clear whether that was in Chur, still in Freiburg or in Mehrerau. Instead, P. was referred by the abbot a lawyer to whom Pater M had entrusted his interests – but the lawyer did not reveal the residence.

Freiburg had in the meantime made statements about P. 's case which he found false or misleading. On 19 May he made claimn to the prosecutor about Father M, as well as Zollitsch and those responsible for Father M: libel, suspected of obstruction of justice and aid to sexual abuse. The news ran nationwide. And the archdiocese explained what a Territorial Abbey is – one was ready for further information.


One would really like to know what everything means - the silence, the ambiguities. The shifting colours which are associated with the statements of the Ordinariat, if you look closer: They leave room for interpretations. The one that prevails in public is not always the one that subsequently endures. But at the beginning this was by and large possible.

As the canon lawyer Beer had once again considered the case for BZ, the Ordinariat left unanswered a request for clarification of a catalogue of open questions: "In view of the pending claims in Constance and the holiday season (...) the Ordinariat do not have in any way the possibility of giving such detailed information, "said spokesman Robert Eberle to the BZ. His office has not always been so sensitive. And as for the holiday season we would like to understand P. alone has had up to now to collect the facts about his case. Some questions, the Ordinariat has still not answered.
Differences between the cases of Birnau and Oberharmersbach

Peter P. has made direct contact with the Vatican on matters on canon law. An employee of the CDF would neither confirm nor deny to the BZ current proceedings. However, he also said: "There is really not such a thing as people who dive simply into a matter. I think we know where he (accused) is, and that the Abbot knows."

In the case of Oberharmersbach, the Freiburg Archbishop immediately asked for foregiveness "with all my heart," athat he had not searched intensively for victims and witnesses. In Birnau, this has still not been done. When Gregor M was overwhelmed by compulsion during his second stay, there are still probably cases which would not be stopped by statute of limitation- but time is running out. The Diocese of Basel made a public appeal on Ms resignation, whereupon four injured parties promptly got in contact. The publication of the accusation in Birnau has so far encouraged noone to contact the authorities.

It is likely to remain there: Last week, Constance had given up proceeding against M.in the absence of acts not covered by the statute of limitations. That is expected according to the Südkurier also for the charges against Zollitsch (Cathcon- now announced the authorities won’t be proceeding given the statute of limitations). Whether the prosecutor has at least been looking for other victims, it was not possible to ascertain on Tuesday due to a staff outing.
Church law would be the failure probably not justiciable

Without crime, no abetting : for this reason Archbishop Zollitsch can therefore also look towards what is in front of him. Also canonically, his alleged failure according to Beer, would probably not brought before the court. First, "because the guidelines, are only 'guidelines and not legally binding texts ". And secondly, because according to Roman legislation, one would have to prove that Zollitsch actually knew that Father M. in the 90s was active in pastoral duties for the Diocese for which Zollitsch was responsible. The fact that he could have taken action with a closer look at the files is not enough. "Nothing is decisive with regard to moral obligations and their compliance," concluded Beer.

That P. instead the story of the Territorial Abbey instead hears the the essential answers to questions important to his life, is quite sure. Unless someone with influence still remembers two statements from Zollitsch: On Good Friday he had complained that in previous cases' “a caring regard for victims has not been enough. There is a also a painful reality that we have to take account of. "